8 August 2017
The Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Working Group on Land Rights Act (LRA) has called on the legislature not to tamper with some of its provisions, saying it would defeat not only the fundamental purpose of the land reform, but also undermine peace, reconciliation, and development in Liberia.
8 August 2017
Human rights advocates and specialist bodies at the United Nations have demanded an end to the discrimination, exclusion and lack of protections for Indigenous peoples around the globe.
This call comes ahead of the tenth annual International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, which will take
8 August 2017
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities are stewards of natural resources and nature. We have been conserving our territories for thousands of years. Each indigenous community has its own territory. For indigenous nomadic pastoralists our territory consists of summering grounds, wintering grounds
7 August 2017
Bauxite has played a role more critical than perhaps any other bit of dirt in the modern land rights struggle.
The 1963 Yirrkala bark petitions protesting an Arnhem Land deal to mine the ore used to make aluminium arguably kicked off the drive to legally reclaim indigenous property.
It was to be
7 August 2017
Mental Health Australia says governments need better response to ‘slow-burning, invisible kind of tragedy’
Governments are better at tackling natural disasters than longer-term problems in remote Indigenous communities, the head of Mental Health Australia has said.
7 August 2017
“It is high time to recognize and strengthen indigenous peoples’ own forms of governance and representation," the U.N. experts stressed.
Human rights advocates and specialist bodies at the United Nations have demanded an end to the discrimination, exclusion and lack of protections for Indigenous
5 August 2017
Indigenous community leader Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma came down heavily on the government saying that thousands of people from the minority communities are sinking under the high tide of country’s “so-called development”.
“The government says that high tide of development spreads across the
4 August 2017
Demand removal of GST on fish sales, increase in nautical limits for fishing
Mumbai: The Akhil Maharashtra Macchimaar Committee and the National Fishermen Forum (NFF) on Tuesday held a protest meeting expressing concern about the Goods and Services Tax (GST), land ownership and transfer of
4 August 2017
MYSURU: Two years ago, Gejja climbed a mango tree and made it his home after his hut in the forest was declared illegal and allegedly pulled down by authorities.
4 August 2017
Peasants, small farmers, and indigenous people are being massacred over land rights and environmental conflicts across rural Brazil. From January to July of this year, 52 people have been killed, according to the Land Pastoral Commission (the Comissão Pastoral da Terra, or CPT, a Catholic
3 August 2017
The government this week reaffirmed its commitment to indigenous peoples living in Cambodia, promising to protect their traditional ways of life ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued an open letter on Tuesday ahead of the international day
3 August 2017
Knowledge of animals, insects, agricultural techniques and weather patterns is honed from interaction with nature passed down through generations